Steve Bedigian shows off his property and his makeshift home in the Hartsel Flats area on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

After a monthslong legal battle, Park County has cracked down on code violations by Steve J. Bedigian, known as the “Flag Man of South Park,” and cleared his property of an eclectic assembly of flags and two-by-fours.

It is among the first actions taken by county officials to enforce county code after admitted Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. put the unincoporated area near Hartsel on U.S. 24 – and its living conditions – on the map.

Many residents of the area known as Hartsel Flats live in RVs, Tuff Sheds and nylon tents without electricity, running water or septic tanks. Dear and his girlfriend moved into an RV down the road from Bedigian in 2014.

Dear is charged with 179 counts in the Nov. 27, 2015, shooting rampage at Colorado Springs’ lone Planned Parenthood clinic. Three people were killed, including a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs police officer, and nine were wounded. A year after the shootings, Hartsel Fire Protection District Chief Jay Hutcheson told The Gazette that the event brought the unincorporated area’s “overwhelming” sanitation and safety issues to the forefront of county officials’ attention.

Faced with the personal anguish wrought by the school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead, Trump pledged action, saying: “We don’t want others to go through the kind of pain you’ve been through.”